Barker Cattle Company

Thursday, January 14, 2016

We are set!

The snow is still coming here and keeping the ground covered, but we got the 1st baby of 2016 and it's a boy! One of the 174 heifers we have to calve out, decided to try it out earlier than expected (not due til Jan 28) but she did it on her own. Tiny little guy out of Thunder. We went ahead and brought him to the barn, just to make sure he's sucking.

You can barely see his ears poking up in the straw! Don't you wish you had a warm bed like this?

Just has to get these legs moving to get to dinner!

The guys were busy today cleaning out the old milking barn and put in some new heat boxes in case of cold weather.

And a brand new heater that makes it cozy enough, maybe we'll be sleeping out here too!

Still in process: New metal hutches that can be moved around in the fields

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Getting ready!

The guys are gearing up and getting all the fields, corrals, hutches, windbreaks, & calf boxes ready to go for calving season. Ordered all the supplies...windbreak complete...fields cleared...heifers brought up from Malta...and now a big water trough installed. 1st round due Jan 28th. We are almost ready!

Going to take a while to fill this one! 900 gallons! Hopefully the pump will be able to keep up better as they get the float set.

Saturday, January 2, 2016

A New Year!

Tyler & Ruel came out today and we wandered through the bulls to see how they're looking. Part of them have been clipped now to get ready for picture day. Braden has been doing a good job of feeding them and we'll see how their gains are coming next week when we weigh them again and dectomax. It's always exciting to look through the prospects for this year's sale. They are bigger than you think when you get in amongst them. They seem to be a calm group which is nice.

Nice Sm x An Prospect.

A good looking bunch of bulls

Fresh Straw a must in these cold temps right now.

A curious bunch...Ruel doing some "Bull Whispering"

It's going to be Picture Time soon, boys! Get those poses ready.

Monday, December 28, 2015

Baby It's Cold Outside!

Brrrr...those temperatures are not climbing very high this week! Cows seem to be weathering it okay and the old feed truck keeps trudging on even if she had to be pull started to get there. Looking forward to a warm 2016 with lots of green grass.

Round bales buried!

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Time to Fire up the Feed Truck!

The winter storm blew in on Monday and there was no choice but to start feeding. The cows have been doing really well on protein blocks and grubbing the Fall Feed, but it's all covered up now. It blew and snowed pretty much most of the day.

Bringing home all the cows from the various pastures to the meadows.

Monday, October 19, 2015

Preview Day

A great day for a picnic in the pasture! We had probably almost as many family attend as potential buyers, but that's what makes it fun. Good times to remember.